Soundhole

Soundhole , 12 days ago

Also, Microsoft could just be lying.

Soundhole , 12 days ago

Honestly, it's less about trusting Microsoft than the inherently flawed nature of a closed source operating system. There's no way a user can tell what's really going on behind the curtain. Maybe that was okay before, but I think the capabilities of AI have pushed us past that point.

Soundhole , 16 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

People spending that much time on their work can and should create things in meat space.

EDIT: This comment got some hate and in retrospect it does sound pretty snotty. No disrespect to any digital artists intended, including AI artists.

I just meant to highlight that more traditional artists can still create in meat space and newer AI artists simply cannot do that easily yet. I personally hope any artist with the ability to focus for hours and hours considers also doing meat space work. Actual tangible, 3d work can only be sold once, but can be sold for a lot. And it's cool.

Soundhole , 19 days ago

Peanots

Soundhole , 21 days ago

Who tf is down voting OC work on Lemmy? Gtf outta here losers!

Nice job as usual, Custard.

Soundhole , 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

Good to see people finally stop being a bunch of reactionaries about it.

Artists make art using tools. AI is a tool. Bad artists still make bad art regardless of tools.

EDIT: Getting down voted by n00bs that don't even know a DDIM from a Euler A but call folks 'prompters' like it's derogatory.

Soundhole , 25 days ago

The punchline is that the protagonist, in this desperate, confusing moment of panic, finds themselves in the company of a useless buffoon who, although in the same terrifying position, is only capable of "helping" by cheerfully explaining the obvious. An experience we can all relate to on some level, especially if the comic as a whole is read as a metaphor.

I think it's pretty well done.

Soundhole , 25 days ago

Well, I guess your read of it suggests the cartoonists didn't really write this comic and just sort of made it up as they went, I suppose? Or got lazy?

I would argue the artist wrote several punchlines before eventually settling on this one, and for good reason. It's subtle and, frankly, funny. It relies on character humor rather than a blunt pun or ham fisted political zinger while still making a point. It's really well crafted, imo.

But I'm just some dumbass on the internet and this cartoonists could be huffing glue, I suppose, so who knows?

Soundhole , 25 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were calling me a dumbass, I was calling myself that, I apologize.

I can assure you I am not the cartoonist. It seems like I am intimately familiar with the process because I am. You can look at my post history to see a few examples of comics actually created on the fly with no thought, writing, or pencils done ahead of time, just stream of consciousness and pens in a sketchbook. I can tell you, a lot of thought was put into the comic we are discussing because I've been through that grinder plenty of times myself.

You're correct about that third panel housing what most people would consider the actual punchline, which is why the fourth is so interesting. I'm not familiar with this cartoonist, so it could be that they are just so stuck in a four panel writing pattern that they felt the need to fill that panel with something, anything, so they just slapped something in there, but it really reads to me as much more thought out and deliberate. I suppose I could, like, go look at more of their work, but, eeeeeeehhhhhhh......

I also disagree that it's not a character study. When working with three or four panels, cartoonists have to set characters up quickly and efficiently and this comic does that extremely well. That red guy is consistent throughout every panel,, as is the protagonist ,we know exactly who he is. To the point where in panel three, the speech balloon is not attributed to anybody, yet we know exactly who is speaking, which is harder to pull off than you might think.

Anyways, you got me blabbing and blabbing. I could talk this kind of shit all day, I take it pretty seriously, in case you hadn't noticed.

Again, you could totally be right. Without looking at more of their work, it's possible this artist is a hack fraud and I am talking up a total sloppy amateur. But just judging from this single piece of work, I suspect they're probably pretty good.

Soundhole , 24 days ago

Okay. How strange. I thought we were having a conversation but I guess you're just some dipshit.

Oh well. Good luck, dipshit.

Soundhole , 29 days ago

I was until I read the comments.

Soundhole , 30 days ago

...unless they ask nicely, of course.

Soundhole , 1 month ago

Canonical have a long history of making decisions for corporate reasons, then using their popularity to try to strongarm the larger Linux community into adopting their way of doing things.

Currently, they're pushing their closed source Snap packs, which are frankly inferior to the open source Flat packs, but it's just the latest example of their shenanigans.

Soundhole , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Okay so that cuts it. Every single AI model should be open source as they ALL use our collective knowledge. They should be treated like libraries, as publicly owned stores of knowledge for everyone's use

I thought maybe Firefly was the one exception, although I suspected some kind of shenanigans. But nope. These corpos stole our collective knowledge and culture and are now ransoming it back to us for profit.

Soundhole , 3 months ago

Are you serious? Boo fucking hoo.

Soundhole , 10 months ago

As an US citizen, I pretty much count on EU regulations to protect me since my own government is too rife with fascist agitators and oligarchs to respond to the needs of the people.

Soundhole , 10 months ago

It erases your history every time you close it so it helps you sharpen your memory.